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Safety Specialist - Field

RK Mechanical

Cheyenne, WYJob$80–95K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$80–95K/yr
Location
Cheyenne, WY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Safety Specialist-Field supports safety across a fast-paced worksite, partnering with construction leaders and teams to identify risks, strengthen compliance, and protect employees. The role leads safety programs, training, inspections, and incident response while supporting prevention and regulatory recordkeeping. RK Industries describes opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, hands-on learning, and professional development.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Verbal PresentationFacilitationWorkers' CompensationReturn to WorkMicrosoft OfficeComputer Software

Qualifications

College/University Graduate1+ Years Relevant ExperienceASPOHSTNSC Advanced Safety CertificateOSHA 30 HourSafety and Health Train the Trainer Designations

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Safety Specialist - Field

Shared Services Cheyenne, Wyoming

Salary: USD 80000 - 95000 Annually

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Description

Safety Specialist-Field

Aurora, CO

$80,000-$95,000/year

Protect people. Prevent risk. Drive performance.

Ready to make safety move? Join RK Industries as a Safety Specialist and help power a fast-paced field environment where people, precision, and performance matter every day. You’ll be on the worksite, partnering with construction leaders and teams to spot risks, solve problems, strengthen compliance, and keep our people working safely, confidently, and at their best.

What You’ll Lead

  • Champion safety compliance across the worksite by ensuring teams follow applicable rules, regulations, procedures, and best practices.

  • Inspect facility, identify hazards, analyze trends, and partner with field leadership to implement corrective actions.

  • Develop and maintain shop-specific safety programs, manuals, standards, procedures, and training matrices.

  • Lead safety orientations and training, including new hire presentations, Lock Out Tag Out, industrial hygiene, and machine guarding.

  • Investigate incidents, manage claims and clinic visits, maintain regulatory records, and support recovery plans.

  • Support prevention and compliance efforts through safe work practices, PPE, OSHA VPP-aligned controls, contractor/vendor vetting, testing, and safety data analysis.

What You’ll Bring

  • College/University graduate with 1-3 years relevant experience or equivalent combination of skills and experience generally expected for specified technical roles.

  • Strong verbal presentation and facilitation skills.

  • Understanding of Worker’s Compensation and Return to Work process.

  • Currently hold or willingness to obtain additional education, safety certifications, and designations required. Designations include but not limited to:

  • BCSP – ASP, OHST preferred

  • NSC Advanced Safety Certificate

  • OSHA 30 Hour

  • Train the trainer designations related to Safety and Health

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and other computer software.

Why Build Your Career at RK

Build bigger. Take on sophisticated, high-profile projects with the resources and capabilities to execute them well.

Have a voice. Influence project strategy, field operations, and how RK continues to improve the way we build.

Build with an integrated team. Collaborate across seven specialized business units with extensive in-house fabrication, manufacturing, and prefabrication capabilities.

Develop what’s next. Help build future field leaders while continuing your own development through mentorship, hands-on learning, and RK University.

Build for the long term. Join a second-generation, family-owned company that combines stability with the growth and opportunity of an industry leader.

Your Benefits

  • Paid time off plus 6 paid holidays

  • Health insurance with a $100 wellness incentive

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Employee discount program through PerkSpot

Join RK Industries where safety, people and performance come first

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis

RK Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law

How this job compares

Set against the 774 open Safety Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$80–95K/yr
  • US median$78–97K/yr318 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $88K, is 3% above the US median midpoint ($85K) — in the middle half of Safety Specialist salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 774 open Safety Specialist jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Safety Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (506 postings).
Education
105 of the 774 open Safety Specialist jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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